The Winter Hexagon is an easily viewed grouping of six of the sky's 20 brightest stars. Go out now once it gets dark and look toward the east.
Credit: M. Bakich/TheSKY software
Credit: M. Bakich/TheSKY software
In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out and view six of the 20 brightest stars in the sky. Because they’re all reasonably close together, you can draw lines from one to the next and form a hexagon. And because of the season it’s best visible, observers call this asterism the Winter Hexagon. Good luck!
You can watch the video here.
